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Within you is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire. This is such a powerful statement that I suggest you reread and savor it before you begin this journey.

Most of what we are taught to believe about our reality conflicts with this statement. However, I know it to be so true and valuable that I encourage you to surrender any hesitation and let this thought enter your consciousness: I have a divine ability to manifest and attract what I need or desire!

Becoming aware of your highest self does not happen through physical effort, nor can one rely upon supernatural techniques such as invoking angels to do this heavenly work for you. What is essential is that you learn that you are both a physical body in a material world, and a non-physical being who can gain access to a higher level. That higher level is within you and is reached through the stages of adult development.

The developmental stages of infancy through adolescence have been explored by many writers, but very little has been written about the developmental stages of adulthood. There are four stages that each of us seem to traverse once we reach adulthood. These stages of our lives represent a way of thinking, although they are not necessarily associated with age or experience. Some of us proceed rapidly through these stages, learning at a young age that we are both a physical self and a higher self. Others remain in one of the earlier stages for a lifetime.

Carl Jung, writing in Modern Man in Search of a Soul, provided some critical insight into the developmental tasks of adulthood. He believed that an awareness of a higher self is a developmental task of adulthood. In the next section I am offering my interpretation of Dr. Jung’s stages of adult development.

I write about these stages with some degree of expertise because I have spent many years in each of them. They have been stepping stones to my awareness of my higher self. Each stage involved experiences that permitted me to move ahead in my thinking and my awareness. Ultimately, I reached the level at which I could use these nine principles to co-create my life. That is, to manifest my own destiny.

As you read these, examine the personal and unique stages of your adult development that parallel Dr. Jung’s archetypes. Your objective is to become aware of your highest self as a dimension of your being that transcends the limitations of the physical world.